A twelve-year-old girl found a skeleton in a cliff. Two hundred million years old. A creature nobody had ever seen.
— Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK) February 17, 2026
The men who came to look at it didn't write down her name.
Her name was Mary Anning. Her father was dead. Her family was in debt. She didn't even have shoes that… pic.twitter.com/8m4WfOJ39T
🚨 Forget the flight logs. This email is worse.
— Sayer Ji (@sayerjigmi) February 17, 2026
December 2014 — six years after Epstein's conviction for sex trafficking.
Bill Gates hosts a breakfast with billionaire donors. Afterward, he emails Jeffrey Epstein a detailed readout on each attendee.
Epstein writes back —… https://t.co/vD6IZnBV3i pic.twitter.com/4fna0QvrKs
Yascha Mounk writes,
If it looks like a professional, talks like a professional, and earns like a professional, then it is probably a professional—with all the cultural and ideological accoutrements that nowadays come with that status.
…the Brooklynization of the Bourgeoisie. Its ultimate harm stems from the representation gap that has opened up between ordinary citizens and those calling the shots in society—and the counterproductive rebellion it inspired.all the schools at the top range of prestige have over the past decades come to resemble each other to a remarkable degree. However much their respective college tour guides may wax lyrical to visiting high school seniors about their idiosyncratic local traditions, Harvard and Princeton, Yale and Stanford, Duke and Columbia are all examples of what biologists call “convergent evolution.” It is not just in the substance of their prevailing views that they constantly copy and emulate each other; it is also in the design of their curricula, in the way they finance their institutions, and in the criteria they use to select their undergraduate classes.
If you visit American suburbia, you will see a flattening of the culture. The same shopping malls, the same restaurant and retail chains the same eateries. College has flattened similarly—right down to the eateries. In 1963, the culture at Princeton differed from that at Yale or Harvard or Swarthmore. Now, they have homogenized. Everywhere there are the same upper-middle-class amenities (fitness centers, performing arts centers) and the same administrators hovering over “student life.”Mounk talks about the need for viewpoint diversity. But I see a broader need for diversity in higher education. Any monoculture in higher education would be bad. It just turns out that the particular monoculture we have is horrible.
The guy is an absolute chad for lighting his ciggy pic.twitter.com/plyfOgahm5
— MERICA MEMED (@Mericamemed) February 15, 2026
Israel:
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) February 16, 2026
- was invaded by an army that is larger than most European armies
- fought a war against an enemy that embeds in civilian homes and doesn’t wear uniforms
- issued evacuation notices
- paused the war for vaccinations
- facilitated humanitarian aid
- kept the internet on
-… pic.twitter.com/HVEYDTlwUo
When the Loeb Classical Library was launched, the greatest language teacher of the age, W.H.D. Rouse, wrote an essay meant to promote the Loebs by extolling the magnificence of Greek literature and Latin literature.
— Ancient Language Institute (@theancientlang) February 16, 2026
And boy did he. "Your mind cannot live without them. All the… pic.twitter.com/gq5W50xrK3
Some of the grandest and most beautiful of the country homes--Hamilton Palace and Trentham Hall, as just two examples--were destroyed in the years after WWII because the spiteful and envious socialist government taxed into oblivion the families who had held them for centuries… https://t.co/x4cRAgKzB2 pic.twitter.com/X29WL0hDSF
— Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1) February 16, 2026
Communist Cuba - Fidel Castro came to power violently in 1959 during President Eisenhower's administration. This is perhaps the most significant ideological victory, Cuba being one of the last holdovers of the Cold War. Trump seems on his way to resolving this international and national security challenge which has defied twelve other administrations for sixty-seven years.Theocratic Nuclear Iran - The Shah fell in 1979 during President Carter's administration. There is an ongoing war currently, but Trump seems well on his way to finally resolving the global threat of a nuclear armed messianic theocracy. This is probably the most significant achievement in terms of the Global War on Terror and national security which has defied six other administrations for forty-seven years.Failed Narco-Dictatorship Venezuela - Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999 during President Clinton's administration, helping drive the global drug catastrophe and immiserating a whole generation of Venezuelans in the process. Chavez and his successor Maduro have defied four other administrations for twenty-seven years.
Posts
All Comments
